In April of the first year of Taixi, the impact of the disaster finally passed.

Jiang Shouyi returned to his hometown of Chashan Village and resettled. Because he had money to buy land, he became a good citizen again.

He took his grandson and worked hard to cultivate the land, thinking that the days of peace were finally coming.

However, it was also this month that the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty suddenly passed away due to a serious illness, and was posthumously named Emperor Wu!

All the princes were young, but Prince Sima Zhong was the oldest. He immediately ascended the throne and changed his reign to Yongping.

The image is always peaceful.

However, the new king, Sima Zhong, was born with dementia and was unable to serve. A year later, the vassal kings and clans rebelled one after another and conquered each other.

Suddenly, the heroes were divided, one founded the country, and the other proclaimed himself emperor! Only ten years after the Jin Dynasty ended the troubled times, the world was once again in chaos!

There are wars and troubles all over Kyushu, and wars and wars are everywhere! Famine and war continue, and the people are in dire straits!

Yongping three years.

In order to supply the King of Qi's "Qingjun side", Langya County continued to increase taxes, and the people all broke their homes, sold themselves to households, or became bandits.

Chashan Village was first exploited by tax collectors and then rampant by bandits.

Jiang Shouyi stepped forward, united the villagers, formed a stronghold to defend themselves, and fought hard for several days. Finally, he forced the bandits back, saved the last food, and survived the winter.

In order to save grain for the second year of farming, the four-year-old Yannu only lived on hay.

"Yan Nu'er, I'm sorry for you. When peace comes next year, I will make you some noodle soup." In the cold winter month, Jiang Shouyi hugged Yan Nu and burst into tears.

"Yeah!" Yan Nu ate the grass with great gusto, not knowing what he was sorry for.

There were still obvious blood marks on his waist, which circled around.

Outsiders thought it was a birthmark, but only Jiang Shouyi knew that it was a wound that had been cut in half when he was a child and had not fully healed.

It took a hundred days for the muscles and bones to break. I cut my hand while chopping wood, and it took ten days to grow back. I cut it off at the waist, and I estimate it will take at least several years to fully heal.

Although it is strange to say that even a broken waist is called an injury, this is how Yan Slave is.

"Aweng said to wait for peace, what is peace?" Yan Nu's big eyes were full of curiosity.

A longing smile appeared on Jiang Shouyi's face: "It means that the world is peaceful and free from chaos, and we people can live a good life without being bullied by others."

"Is it coming next year?" Yan Nu smiled when he saw Aweng, who had always been frowning. He thought that it must be a very beautiful thing, and he couldn't help but want to see it himself.

Jiang Shouyi listened to his grandson's words and looked back at the wars and wars in his youth. Before the Jin Dynasty, the world had been in chaos for hundreds of years. Now that it has been unified for more than ten years, it is time for a prosperous age.

So he nodded firmly: "Of course, next year it will definitely be peaceful."

Yongping four years.

The refugees in Donglai rebelled against the bandits and wreaked havoc in Langya territory.

Its leader called himself "Tianyi Gong" and attacked the city under the banner of "Tianyi Old Immortal, boundless power, saving the world, peace and eternal life".

The major wealthy families stepped up their recruitment of troops, and the garrisons in Langya's cities were stationed in the city. The rebels attacked for a month without any results, so they instead looted major villages and finally headed west.

Chashan Village originally had too few seeds and too much wasteland at the beginning of spring, so the harvest was not good. It was also looted by the rebels, and the people had no food or clothing.

Jiang Shouyi took Yannu and dozens of other villagers and fled into the mountains to survive by digging wild roots.

Yannu still ate grass. He didn't know why the villagers and Aweng wanted to eat the unpalatable wild roots. He tasted them once and thought they were not as delicious as grass!

"Are they Taiping?" Yan Nu asked, pointing to the large and small groups of troops at the foot of the mountain. He had heard this group of people shouting about Taiping and Yongnian.

"No! No! They are all rebels! Robbers!" Jiang Shouyi's eyes were red. Their village was looted and countless familiar faces were taken away.

"Those who don't give us a way to survive are all evil people. The government will definitely put them down. When the government army arrives, we will have peace."

Yongping five years.

Gou Xi, the powerful general of the Jin Dynasty, commanded an army of 30,000 to defeat the bandits. The two armies faced each other at the junction of Qingxu Prefecture.

There were demons among the rebels who were good at changing their ways and infiltrated into the army to disrupt military orders, spread rumors, and burn down granaries, causing the Jin army to be defeated.

Gou Xi gathered the defeated troops and fled to various counties in Qingzhou, marching to Langya County. Because morale was low and the local wealthy people were unwilling to work, he allowed the army to march into the countryside.

Not a grain of grain was left in Chashan Village, and the cries were loud. Soon the entire village was thrown into the hands of a local wealthy family and became serfs. All the farmland in Chashan Village belonged to the Zhang family in Hua County and was renamed Chashan Castle.

The six-year-old Yan Nu was now half a man tall. There were only faint marks on his body, but he was basically healed.

Now he is barefoot, chewing hay, and helping in the fields to cultivate land for the wealthy family.

He asked innocently: "Aweng, is it peaceful?"

Jiang Shouyi looked miserable and said angrily: "Good boy, this is not peace..."

"Although they are government troops, they are more hateful than rebels. The court will definitely punish them severely."

Yan Nu was very curious: "Is there peace after the severe punishment from the court?"

How did Jiang Shouyi know? He swung his hoe, thought for a while, and said, "The King of Qi raised an army to Qingjun a few years ago. The chaos in the world is caused by the rebellion of treacherous ministers. When King Qi succeeds, there will be peace."

Yongping six years.

The King of Qi defeated the usurping King of Zhao, and after the success of the Qing Dynasty, he granted amnesty to the whole country and won over the generals.

As a result, Gou Xi, who was full of criticism, was promoted to General Pingdong despite his merits, and was transferred to Yanzhou to continue to quell the rebellion...

However, before Gou Xi left, he forcibly recruited people and robbed 60,000 laborers from various counties to build roads and bridges and transport supplies.

Jiang Shouyi and Yan Nu had a hard time along the way, and the soldiers whipped them like prisoners.

"Ah Weng, Ah Weng, has Taiping come?" Yan Nu couldn't help asking as he heard the loud crying in his ears.

Jiang Shouyi held Yan Nu in his arms and gritted his teeth and said, "They won't give us a way to survive. We have to find our own way..."

The war started. Among the rebels, Jiang Shouyi took Yan Nu and took advantage of the chaos to escape.

On the way, Jiang Shouyi fought tooth and nail to kill four sergeants. Yan Nu was stabbed more than twenty times, but nothing happened.

Finally, with the help of Yan Nu, who was only seven years old, Weng and Sun escaped back to their hometown.

Yongping seven years.

The king of Nansha also cleared his side, broke through the imperial city, and killed the king of Qi among the rebels.

An immortal killed the monster among the rebels, so the imperial court issued an edict, pardoning the rebels and only punishing the culprits. One month later, Yi Gong was killed by his subordinates, and 120,000 rebels were transferred to the Jin army, all under the command of Gou Xi.

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Because of his meritorious service in the imperial edict, Gou Xi was promoted to General Dongfang and commanded the four counties of Taishan, Langya, Pingchang, and Beihai!

Jiang Shouyi finally returned to his hometown, but Gou Xi then ordered the second- and third-rate wealthy families in each county to contribute money and labor and manpower to repair the city.

As a result, the wealthy families complained and the people suffered unspeakably.

The eight-year-old Yan Nu, with grass in his mouth, naked upper body and bare feet, ran around at the foot of the city wall, delivering water to the workers.

When Jiang Shouyi was sent to him, he asked: "Aweng, Aweng, is this peace?"

Jiang Shouyi stroked Yan Nu's head with one hand, poured down a large bowl of water, and said with force, "Good boy, wait a little longer, wait a little longer... we will soon be in peace..."

"After building this city, we can go home and farm. It will be fine if we work a little harder. We will be fine next year."

In the eighth year of Yongping, there was a severe drought in Qingzhou, and the red land was thousands of miles away.

Tens of thousands of refugees stormed wealthy manors, besieged Wubao, and robbed granaries.

The Zhang family in Huaxian County distributed weapons to the tenant farmers and ordered all the forts under their name to defend them. Jiang Shouyi also picked up a knife and stood on the wall of Chashan Fort to fight for his life.

Finally, Gou Xi's army arrived ten days later. After killing the refugees, he asked the army to enter Chashan Fort for repairs.

The Zhang family in the fort refused to open the door. Gou Xi became furious and ordered an attack, and the Chashan Fort was massacred.

A fire burned down the whole village, and only a few households of the former Chashan villagers were lucky enough to escape.

Gou Xi was known as the Great Bandit, and had beheaded more than ten thousand people!

Jiang Shouyi desperately fled up the mountain with Yan Nu and escaped. When he came back, it was devastated, corpses were everywhere, and countless familiar faces had been killed.

"Aweng..." Yan Nu found a few pieces of blood-stained grass and stuffed them into his mouth before he finished speaking.

Jiang Shouyi knelt on the ground and sobbed, grabbed the scorched earth on the ground, and sobbed: "No... nothing..."

"Everyone is dead...all is dead..."

Yan Nu squatted aside: "Aweng, what will happen if you die?"

"I just can't see him again..." Jiang Shouyi stood up and hugged Yan Nu.

However, Yan Nu pointed to the corpse hanging not far away: "Uncle Big Tou, Aunt Cha, Alian, Xiao Quanzi, they are all there, aren't they?"

"But they will never speak again, they will never call you Yannu'er, and they will never move again." Jiang Shouyi cried loudly.

Yannu couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw Aweng was so sad.

Jiang Shouyi wiped away his tears with rough hands: "Yan Nu'er, don't cry... don't cry..."

Yan Nu was obedient, wiped away his tears and said, "Aren't you happy if you cry?"

"Yes, Aweng likes to see you smile."

Yan Nu immediately broke out into a moving smile, warm and brilliant.

Jiang Shouyi also showed a bitter but strong smile, feeling excited again in his heart.

"Good boy, you have such a beautiful smile, I like it." He was a bad old man. He wanted to die countless times, but he still had to live desperately for Yan Nu.

It seemed like he lived just for this smile.

"Come on, let's go into the mountains! Yannu, you eat grass, and Aweng digs wild roots! Let's come back when there's peace..." Jiang Shouyi said firmly.

He couldn't help but feel lucky that Yan Nu was so easy to feed and had been eating grass all these years... He could still keep warm in the winter...

Thinking of this, Jiang Shouyi felt sad. He was so useless, and he never gave Yan Nu a good life. Instead, he relied on Yan Nu to survive many difficult moments.

"Will it be peaceful when you come back?" Yan Nu asked.

Jiang Shouyi nodded heavily: "Yes! That Gou Xi has offended the wealthy family, and his good days are numbered!"

The ninth year of Yongping.

The king of Donghai raised troops to Qingjun's side, and Gou Xi led his army to respond.

In order to prevent a fire in the rear, the King of Donghai asked Langya Wang, the leader of Shilin, to come forward, which temporarily suppressed the resentment of the wealthy family and eased the tense relationship between Gou Xi and the wealthy family.

Soon after, Gou Xi was promoted to General of the Eastern Expedition due to his meritorious service in battle.

Each family then converged, recruited refugees, trained local warriors, reclaimed wasteland, and recuperated.

The forests of the Tea Mountain were cleared, and Jiang Shouyi could no longer make a living, so he was forced to go down the mountain to cultivate land, and became a slave under the name of a wealthy family.

The ten-year-old Yan Nu was struggling to pull the plow while swallowing grass.

Jiang Shouyi was also plowing the ground with sweat all over his body. His skin was withered and black, like smoked bacon.

"Aweng, Aweng, when will the world be peaceful?"

"Wait a moment... wait until those feudal lords are at peace, then good times will come."

Yongping ten years.

The King of Donghai invaded the imperial capital, killed the King of Nansha, and took control of the government.

He conquered the east and west, quelled the rebellion of the vassal kings, and immortals came to congratulate him. For a while, the princes were subdued.

Gou Xi successfully quelled the chaos and was promoted to governor of Qingzhou! Governor of the nine counties of Qingzhou!

He became more and more arrogant and domineering, preying on the common people, enriching his treasury with gold and jade, and his relationship with the wealthy families became bad again, and conflicts continued within the country.

Young and old like the grandfather and grandson could only work hard, clearing land during the day, chopping firewood and burning bricks for the wealthy family at night, getting up early in the morning to fetch water, and then continuing to cultivate land.

However, even so, in the autumn, they will still go to build Wubao for the wealthy people.

In the cold winter, Jiang Shouyi relied on Yan Nu to keep warm, and repaired the wall outside the 'New Tea Mountain Castle' on a snowy night.

"Aweng, has Taiping come yet?"

Jiang Shouyi said almost numbly: "The war is over. The world will be at peace. Next year...next year things will get better."

In the eleventh year of Yongping, the barbarians rebelled.

The clans and tribes that originally relied on the Jin Dynasty to help quell the chaos and took advantage of the opportunity to grow, raised armies one after another, ravaged the northern land, massacred and looted.

They were ferocious and unstoppable, and possessed strange powers and sorcery. In just a few months, they swept across the north and south of the river and traveled to various states.

Yongzhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Jizhou, and Yuzhou were in chaos one after another, and dozens of counties and cities fell.

Countless hungry people were forced to rebel, form armies to protect themselves, and fled to various places, struggling to survive in search of food.

Gou Xi was in charge of Qingzhou and continuously added taxes, and the wealthy families were frantically building forts and training troops. The heavy hard labor made the life of the grandfather and grandson even more difficult.

One day, Jiang Shouyi was seriously ill and Yan Nu became anxious. Hearing that there was good medicine in the warehouse of the martial arts training ground, he went straight in to get the medicine and fed it to Aweng.

Afterwards, he was whipped half to death under the orders of the nobles in the castle, and almost died.

Seeing the miserable condition of his grandson, Jiang Shouyi felt extremely distressed, and secretly regretted allowing him to be treated as an ordinary person: "Next time, you must not be so impulsive and offend the nobles... If something happens to you, how will Aweng survive?"

Although Yan Nu was miserable, he still stubbornly said: "In what way are you nobler than us?"

Jiang Shouyi was stunned: "Noble people study more and have the knowledge to govern the world..."

Thinking of the chaos in the world, he changed his words and said: "Most of the wealthy nobles have had gods. The gods are immortal, can call the wind and rain, and have unimaginable power for mortals. They are very powerful..."

Yan Nu suddenly understood: "So being immortal and having great power makes you noble?"

Jiang Shouyi couldn't explain clearly at the end of his words, so he just said: "We are all untouchables. When the world is peaceful and you can live a good life, I will be satisfied."

Yan Nu asked: "Can Taiping really wait?"

"Yes..." Jiang Shouyi murmured numbly: "I heard that the noble family wants to invite gods to be born, and the gods will create peace."

In the twelfth year of Yongping, monsters were born in the year of great disaster, and evil spirits were born in the great chaos.

Now the chaos has lasted for more than ten years, and evil spirits are gradually appearing in the world, and evil spirits are everywhere!

There is a giant golden-horned demon in Bingzhou, ten feet long, who leads his beasts to eat humans and feeds them as sheep! He eats three hundred women a day!

Countless heroes went to crusade, only to become the meal of the 100,000 wolves under his command.

There is a drought in Yongzhou that is devastating to the world. It neither lives nor dies. Wherever it passes, not even a blade of grass grows!

Twelve San people from Jiming Mountain were born with swords to slay demons, but they fell into Tianshui and turned into zombies.

In Qingzhou, there are nine dragons that pull up the mountain, and a huge blue and white peak rises from the flat ground. The climbers are struck by the calamity clouds.

Eighteen demons live in it and set up eighteen levels of purgatory to torture the immortals. It is known as the "Nine Dragon Demon Cave".

Seeing this chaos, the family finally woke up and asked their own immortals to come out and succumb to the devil.

As everyone knows, there are also powerful people among the barbarians. Since the previous dynasty, they have attached themselves to the Central Plains and developed, and now they have become a trend!

They join forces with demons and are extraordinary.

On the other hand, among the monks in the Central Plains, there are only a handful of them. The great masters of the Immortal family are all in a leisurely state of mind, are unrestrained and unrestrained, avoid the world, and live far away in the mountains and seas.

Those who occasionally respond are doing so casually! They come floating in the air and leave as soon as they say...

The secular situation in the Jin Dynasty was also extremely unfavorable. The top aristocratic families and first-class families suffered heavy losses. They simply gave up their ancestral land and retreated to the war-free Jiangnan to cultivate their lives.

All the wealthy families moved their clothes and clothes southward, making the barbarians in the north even more arrogant.

Only many local small and medium-sized powerful people stayed and inherited the property of the big families in the North.

"Ah, ah, ah, the nobles are all crying. It seems that some ancestor has died?" Yan Nu gnawed on the grass and said the news he had inquired about.

Jiang Shouyi let out a long sigh. He knew that many of the wealthy families in Langya County had died in the blue-white magic mountain that suddenly rose up thousands of miles away.

He looked a little confused, the world was getting harder and harder.

Looking at myself again, I am already over sixty years old, with gray hair, as thin as firewood, and my body is getting worse day by day, almost like a withered bone in the grave. How long can I stay with Yan Nu?

He hugged Yan Nu tightly and said feebly: "Remember, Aweng will die one day. Don't cry when the time comes, but live bravely and strongly."

Yan Nu murmured: "Stay alive..."

Jiang Shouyi stroked him: "Yes, alive, you can eat, you can laugh, you can miss, you can protect the people you love..."

"You are still young. If you survive, you will surely see peace one day."

Yan Nu nodded vigorously: "I know Aweng, I will always live!"

The thirteenth year of Yongping.

A barbarian tribe named Tufa swept into Qingzhou.

Although the entire tribe only has 30,000 people, its military power is extremely fierce.

Gou Xi, the governor of Qingzhou, was shocked. While gathering a large army to meet the enemy, he also ordered the powerful families of various counties to send troops to help.

However, the wealthy families hated him deeply, and they only sent out some old, weak, sick and disabled people, and Jiang Shouyi was among them.

"Good boy, don't be afraid. Aweng is not here, so you have to be alone." Jiang Shouyi, with white hair on his head, said goodbye to Yan Nu with a weapon in hand.

Fourteen-year-old Yan Nu is almost as tall as him, with a lean body, slightly dark skin, and big eyes as bright as stars.

Yan Nu was eager to try: "I want to go too, Yan Nu has never been separated from A Weng!"

"No! Don't!" Jiang Shouyi said seriously: "You must be obedient and wait for my return in peace in the fort. Remember not to cause trouble! Work hard..."

"Those noble people are born nobler than us. If they bully you and don't give you food, you can dig grass secretly..."

"If they beat or scold you, don't fight back, but if they want to kill you...you must run! Kill whoever blocks your way! Go for it with all your might!"

Jiang Shouyi didn't know if he could come back after leaving. He was too worried about Yan Nu.

Yan Nu is innocent and fearless, with a fiery temperament. He is also a bit silly on weekdays, and he always cannot figure out many common sense things.

On the other hand, once he has figured it out, he will never change what he has decided, and even ten cows cannot pull it back.

When you are here, you can still control him, but what will you do when you are gone?

Without Xue'er, Yan Nu's magic has stagnated. He can eat grass and other strange abilities, but he is still resting on his legacy as a baby.

Thinking of this, he asked again: "Remember, child... you still have a family member. Her name is Zhu Yanxue, and she is the noble daughter of the Zhu family in Anqiu..."

Jiang Shouyi has kept his promise over the years and has never been to the Zhu family's territory. He doesn't know what happened to Xue'er. She will probably grow up to be a lady among all the people.

At this moment, he told Yan Nu everything about Xue'er, fearing that he would not have a chance to talk about it again in the future.

"Family?" Yan Nu scratched his head.

"Yes, you were all born by God. It was Aweng who picked you up..." Jiang Shouyi finally told his life experience. He didn't know if he and Xue'er were brothers or sisters, so he just said that they were.

family.

"If one day someone bullies you and you have nowhere to go, go find her. It doesn't matter if she doesn't recognize you. All you have to do is follow her and protect her. Even being a servant by her side is fine."

Jiang Shouyi knew that as long as Xue'er was by his side, Yan Nu would be even more magical, and he would have the capital to protect himself in this troubled time.

Although that might make it easier for him to get into trouble and be coveted by many bad people, at that time, there was nothing he could do about it. Maybe Yan Nu was destined not to be a mortal.

If he had known that the world would be in such chaos, he probably would not have let the two children separate.

"Xue'er grew up in a famous family and must be more sensible than you. If...if you think it makes sense, just listen to her."

"I understand... Aweng, you must come back soon." Yan Nu smiled warmly.

Jiang Shouyi reluctantly stroked Yan Nu's soft black hair: "Aweng will come back. I haven't brought you a good life yet."

Yan Nu grinned: "Oh! Aweng! When you come back, will the world be at peace?"

Jiang Shouyi smiled: "When the world is at peace, Aweng will come back."

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Chapter completed!